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Google says the AI-focused Pixel 8 can’t run its latest smartphone AI models
Gemini Nano can't run on the smaller Pixel 8 due to mysterious "hardware limitations."
At the end of the show in a Q&A session, Googler Terence Zhang, a member of the Gemini-on-Android team, said "[Gemini] Nano will not be coming to the Pixel 8 because of some hardware limitations. Between the hour-long presentation and private press pre-briefing that Ars was a part of, "What's the difference" became a pretty well-worn question that was expected to be answered clearly. Google promised seven years of OS updates for the new Pixels, and to already be stripping down features due to "hardware limitations" after five months is a disappointment.
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